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Crossing the pass : new poems from Banff
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 1986 Oct PAM
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 55p
- Subjects
- Boom Lake
- Cascade Mountain
- Johnson Lake
- Kain, Conrad
- Phillips, Walter J
- Wheeler, Clara
- Wilcox, Walter J
- Notes
- Contents: Crossing the pass (p.1); Mt. Rundle twilight (p.2); The old trail (p.3); In the winter forest(p.4); Twilight (p.5); The meeting (p.6); Night-time parting (p.7); Mrs. Lewthwaite’s summer (p.8); Walter Wilcox in Paradise Valley (p.9); September hike (p.10); The night road (p.11); A July walk (p. 12); Exhortation (p.13); Banff dawn (p.14); The meadow (p.15); Elegy (p.16); Autumn at Johnson’s Lake (p.17); The aspens (p.18); Burial (p.19); The unknown woman (p.20); Reflection (p.21); Dusk (p.22); Lost love (p.23); The crocuses (p.24); At the zoo (p.25); Walking home (p.26); Fossil-hunting (p.27); Musings from Mt. Cascade (p.28); Two birches (p.29); Autumn requital (p.30); Manifestation (p.31); Two lovers in spring (p.32); Walter Phillips’ last dream (p.33); Near Boom Lake (p.34); Hypocrisy (p.34); Husband and wife (p.35); Avant-garde artist (p.36); Night adventure (p.37); For Conrad Kain (p.38); Darkling meditation (p.39); To Edward Thomas (p.40); On the road to Sundance Canyon (p.41); The death of the deer (p.42); Alone (p.43); Summer dusk (p.44); The stream (p.45); Famous thinker (p.46); Menthenuena (p.47); Autumn dawn (p.48); First love (p.49); The mining camp (p.50); For Katherine Mansfield (p.51); Stewart Canyon (p.52); Inglismaldie Creek (p.53); Old Miss Hastings and the Rockies (p.54); Mrs. Wheeler’s garden (revision)(p.55)
- Cover: drawing by Wesley Watts, a Banff-born artist
- Accession Number
- 6340
- 19000
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92 1986 Oct PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Gordon Burles fonds
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- Part Of
- Gordon Burles fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem.…
- Date Range
- 1970-2017, 2022
- Reference Code
- M196 / V103
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Machine-readable data file
- Private record
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Gordon Burles fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 196
- V 103
- Sous-Fonds
- M 196
- V 103
- Accession Number
- 1199, 1367, 1414, 1674, 2061, 2212, 2239, 2890, 3233, 3769, 3874, 5526, 5689, 5903, 6347, 6487, 6927,7215, 7483, 7486, 7612
- Reference Code
- M196 / V103
- Date Range
- 1970-2017, 2022
- Physical Description
- ca. 36.5 cm textual records + 9 CD-R (textual records). -- 7 photographs : prints, negatives.
- History / Biographical
- James Gordon Burles, b.1949, is a poet, surveyor and civil servant at Banff, Alberta, Canada. A native of Banff, Burles is a student of the Canadian Rockies. In Burles' own words, much of his poetry is inspired by four environments: the life and history of Banff National Park, the town of Banff, the Okanagan Valley, and Calgary.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists mainly of poems by Gordon Burles, 1970-2017. Manuscripts contain about twenty-seven hundred poems, mainly in free verse, some with revisions. Poems are numbered in chronological order. About 2016 Burles stopped numbering each poem. The year of creation is indicated with each poem. Some poems pertain to mountain personalities such as Bill Peyto, Norman Sanson, Margaret Stone, Walter D. Wilcox, Walter J. Phillips, Conrad Kain, and Georgia Engelhard. Many are surrealist or nonsense poems and many deal with the Cemetery Tea House, an imaginary teahouse frequented by various characters.
- Fonds consists of three series: I : Poetry Manuscripts; II : Prose and research; III: Digital typeset copies of published poems
- Some poems deal with Burle's parents and family. The collection also holds fifty-three books and booklets, self-published by the author from 1984 to 2017. The books published from 2003 to 2017 contain all the poems which the author considers worth preserving. Some in one book have been revised in a later book. Some poems were revised more than once. The three books published in 1984, 1986, and 1990 are considered by the author as early works. Only the poems in those books that the author considered worth publishing have been republished in the 2003-2017 books. Names in the poem titles are usually made up.
- Some titles are tongue-in-cheek. There were so many poems that the author resorted to names like "Portrait for Bertrand Clerihew-Guggenheim" to make it easier. Some titles, of course, are obviously connected to the content of the poem. Many titles were long enough to preclude the difficulty of getting the graphic designer to centre the title over the poem! Also included are manuscripts, research materials, articles, and notes etc. regarding Bill Peyto, the Copper Mountain Mine, Banff National Park museum, logging roads in the Johnson Lake area, and the Sanson-Bethune connection.
- Photographs pertain to remains of hay rake and wagon in the Third Vermilion Lake area (1975) and remains of the Queen of the Hills Mine, above Silver City (1977).
- CD-ROMS's contain typeset copies of manuscripts by Gordon Burles in Pagemaker, In Design and .pdf file formats. Manuscripts include "The Jagged Harmony," 2005, "An Avenue Without End," 2005, "That Perfect Elsewhere," n.d., "Much Like A Dream," 2004, "All the Universe of Sight," 2006, "Those Grand Poplars," 2004, "Lords of Many Orchards: Selected Best Poems of Gordon Burles," 2003, "That trellis of tombs: Further Selected Poems of Gordon Burles," 2004, "The Closing of Many Doors: More Poems by Gordon Burles," 2006.
- II : Prose and research includes "Life story of James Gordon Burles," 2022
- Notes
- Books of poetry published by Gordon Burles are located in the Whyte Museum Archives Library 05.1/B92. In 2018 Gordon Burles compiled a listing of the original poems that were edited and re-published. This list is in the M196 document file, and is also a PDF attached to the fonds level record
- Name Access
- Burles, Gordon
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: file level descriptions with inventory
- Creator
- Burles, Gordon
- Category
- Arts
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
Electronic Resources
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